Quotes by Paul Tsongas

About Paul Tsongas:

Paul Efthemios Tsongas was a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1985. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1992 presidential election. He previously served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts's 5th congressional district (1975–1979) and held local political office.
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Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

Paul Tsongas

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues...

Paul Tsongas

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

Paul Tsongas

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

Paul Tsongas

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.

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I am an American. I love this country.

Paul Tsongas

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

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Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.

Paul Tsongas

Author Bio

  • NamePaul Tsongas
  • DescriptionAmerican politician
  • BornFebruary 14, 1941
  • DiedJanuary 18, 1997
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician